Before You Blog About Trying to Occupy Techcrunch…
Hi-ho! One of the NewME Summer 2011 founders here! I’ve watched the tenor of the conversation around CNN’s Black in America 4 go from the startups and how they’re trying to break down barriers to only the barriers. I’ve talked to people on Twitter who think highlighting the issue as it stands right now is [...]
Read MoreWorkplace Disparities in Information Technology Careers Leading to Increased Turnover Rate for Women and Minorities
A new report from The Level Playing Field Institute indicates that women and people of color are significantly underrepresented and have vastly different work experiences than their white counterparts in technology jobs leading to a high turnover rate. The report, entitled Tilted Playing Field: An Examination of Hidden Bias in Information Technology Workplaces, reports on [...]
Read MoreBlack Techies Find the Industry Elusive
Despite the high number of Black technology consumers and users on popular social networking sites like Twitter, African-Americans are lagging behind in the creation of successful technology start-ups and work in the field of technology. African-Americans make up just one percent of internet company founders nationally and, on average, Black founders raise less than half the amount [...]
Read More3 Reasons Tomorrow’s Tech Industry Will Be More Culturally Diverse
The issue of diversity is frequently brought up across industries. It’s popularly framed in the context of top-level executive positions at Fortune 500 companies, head football coaching jobs and elected government officials. But what does this conversation look like when we discuss it in the context of digital media, given its prominence in today’s modern [...]
Read MoreComcast Takes Steps to Closing the Digital Divide With Internet Essentials Program
Cable and Internet provider Comcast is launching a new program that may help close the digital divide gap even more. They plan to offer discounted internet service and computers to low-income families with a program called Internet Essentials. The program is set to provide low-cost access to the internet and affordable computers as well as [...]
Read MoreComing to Terms With the Minority High Tech Employment Gap
Co-founder of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) , David Honig blogs about the current issues minorities face with employment in technology on Huffington Post. The aftershocks of the massive economic earthquake that was the Great Recession continue to reverberate, sometimes violently, across the United States. The unemployment rate, especially within communities of color, [...]
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